In preparation for a possible new project, I needed to build sdcc, a compiler that targets a bunch of 8-bit architectures. You can find information about sdcc at their sourceforge page: http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/Usually, this is just a port away. But due to looking at the wrong tree, I thought I had to compile it myself. The port and p [...]

Yes, I know we just released 4.8. This is a rollup release, capturing everything that was committed to the 4.6 branch after 4.6.1 and before 4.8 came out. If you are going to upgrade, it’s worth it to go to 4.8, but this way there’s a clean final version in the 4.6 branch.
(Hat tip to Sascha Wildner for reminding (Read more...)

While the world largely wasn\'t looking, there was a nano hackathon last month, Hackathon report - e2k17 Hackathon, Edmonton Alberta. Bob Beck (beck@) writes,
So this was a small "nano" hackathon held a bit under the radar. Unlike the big ones this was not Foundation supported or anything really beyond my Visa card and my Darl [...]

I am late in mentioning this, because it was added just before the DragonFly 4.8 branch: there’s a new ‘efisetup(8)‘ script added to DragonFly. Use to to perform a complete a UEFI-bootable installation to a given disk.

A feature set for debugging NetBSD applications (without threads) has been merged with upstream LLDB!
The number of passing tests this month has been increased from 267/1235 to 622/1247.
This is +133% within one month and approximately 50% of successfully passed tests in total!
As usual regular housekeeping of ptrace(2) interfaces has been do [...]

A feature set for debugging NetBSD applications (without threads) has been merged with upstream LLDB!
The number of passing tests this month has been increased from 267/1235 to 622/1247.
This is +133% within one month and approximately 50% of successfully passed tests in total!
As usual regular housekeeping of ptrace(2) interfaces has been do [...]

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 54th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available
with more than 17500 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/
A neutral overview can be found at https://www.openhub.net/p/pkgs [...]

The machine room that lists.openbsd.org is in will be undergoing
maintenance Saturday April 15th. As a result, the list server will
be taken down at 5:30am MDT. It will be back up by 6pm MDT at the
latest but hopefully earlier, in the early afternoon if possible.
This also affects ftp.usa.openbsd.org and anoncvs3.usa.openbsd.org
which are [...]

I’m very UNIXy this week.
Have You Played… Event[0]? Sounds like a simulation of IRC.
TERRIBLE, AWFUL, NO GOOD, REALLY BAD HEAVY METAL ALBUM COVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. (via)
The Best Metal on Bandcamp: March 2017. A palate cleanser from the last link.
Google Open Source Docs. Everyone releases their code, but not their (Read [...]

Odd batch of links this week.
Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
The FreeBS [...]

Now that we’re past the DragonFly 4.8 release, Francois Tigeot has added an update to the i915 driver, bringing it to match what’s in the Linux 4.7.10 kernel. He also committed Peeter Must’s port of the vga_switcheroo module.

Hi everyone,
There’s still time for students to submit their proposals to work with the FreeBSD Project for the 2017 Google Summer of Code. The Student Application Deadline is Monday, April 3. Below is a link to an informational flyer. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploa [...]

DragonFly 4.8 is officially released! Download from your nearest mirror, where it should appear in the next 24 hours. If you’re upgrading your existing install, you can use the generic instructions in the release notes or in my users@ email; whichever you click first. Don’t forget to ‘pkg upgrade’!

We have released LibreSSL 2.5.2, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon. It includes the following
changes:
* Added the recallocarray(3) memory allocation function, and converted
various places in the library to use it, such as CBB and BUF_MEM_grow.
recallocarray(3) is similar to re [...]

Old-school UNIX and games this week.
Managing an open source project. (via)
There was a Coke machine connected to the ARPANET in the 70’s. The local version of this has a Beastie on the front. (via)
Swan – GNU/Cygwin Xfce Desktop. At first glance, “XFCE for Windows” is a much more clear title. (Read more...)

Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) writes on tech@:
I just committed the last parts of my working tree to enable both seabios
and alpine linux support (using serial console).
This should be enough for people to create images and help find and
fix bugs.
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